It’s official. We now only have ten days left to leave the EU. And we still have 1000 kms to do, and that’s in a straight line, not taking into account our squiggly ones! We are averaging about 150 kms per day at the moment, so we better get cracking!

Today we drove, taking the back roads as normal, and stumbled upon some very picturesque towns. There was chocolate ripple galore and I loved it!

Then we found a nice walk to do. Neither of us felt like walking, but I insisted, as we need to get our fitness up if we are to do the Routeburn track next year. It was a nice walk, through the forest with giant cliffs rising up on the side. We went out without any water or anything, which was really dumb, as it would have been a nice 9km loop walk had we been better organised.

After that, we just kept on driving, along country lanes and pretty towns. It was like cycle touring but in the comfort of a van.

At 4pm, we found a free spot to stop right on a cycle path. I do wish we had our bikes here, and I think we’ll look at getting a bike rack for the van. I think we’ll go to France tomorrow.